RE: Streams support in Linux

Tom Talpey
2018-08-29T18:59:25Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aurélien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 9:55 AM
> To: Tom Talpey <ttalpey@microsoft.com>; Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>;
> Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>; Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>;
> ebiggers@kernel.org; Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>; linux-fsdevel <linux-
> fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: RE: Streams support in Linux
>
> Tom Talpey <ttalpey@microsoft.com> writes:
> > Wait, you're saying that Macs and Windows clients need to start issuing these
> new magical ioctl's to Samba/Linux servers? Not a solution, IMO.
>
> I think what Jeremy is saying is the other way around: linux programs
> issuing ioctls that cifs.ko will translate to what SMB uses to handle
> stream on the wire.

Well ok, but the same question might apply to local applications,
or local libraries. Will there be a liblinuxsmb3streams.so, just to
implement these?

Tom.